Interactions with the Amish - I like their stores

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Overwritten Tapes

Overwritten Tapes

Mein name ist Baron Schnitzel von Autobahn
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I've interacted with them a number of times. Their shops are always high quality. My brothers doctor can tell beginnings of certain illnesses by looking into their eye. Can't say it's efficient, but he's healthy.

Also the meat they sell, and the cornmeal, I stock up on it.

Anyone have any interaction with them?
 
They built a porch for my folks. It was a father and his three young sons. Friendly people. My mom asked if she could take a picture and the guy was cool about it. "Well we aren't supposed to pose for pictures but if you take one that's okay"
Kids only have to go to 8th grade apparently but they seemed relatively well spoken.
 
The only time my family interacted with them is that they were extremely closed off. But I was a child so my memory is very vague, and we were only briefly stopping by. They wouldn't look at my dad in the eye and just stared at their feet in silence until we left. Maybe it was just them.
 
They are as greedy as any other Americans but don't have to pay FICA taxes or comply with child labor laws. They are basically an internal colony of illegal immigrants with a way-out and wrong religion that's nothing more than a pack of weird rituals and chants designed to take away the money of fools.
 
JULAY said:
just think they shouldn't be allowed to undercut every other contractor in their area but getting an unfair economic advantage.
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Cry more scrub. Get good at building stuff.
Overwritten Tapes said:
Anyone have any interaction with them?
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I travel through Amish country to see my relatives. For the most part they are always pleasant and sell good stuff. However I always hear about puppy mills and other scams as well.
 
my mom and I went to a lot of historical tourist shit when I was a kid
one time we went to Historical Foundry, still casting iron the same as when it was founded in 1794 or whatever
also on the tour with us were a couple of Amish guys
they were not there for casualfag bullshit
they got DEEP into the fucking weeds about casting techniques and metallurgy and whatever because this is now a meetup of people who do this daily, and manage to do it in completely different circles for different reasons
 
I went to the Amish market in Annapolis, MD frequently when I lived around there, as well as bought some breads and unpasteurized milk from some of them in Upstate NY. The food quality is excellent and they're pleasant to do business with. The market in Annapolis is pretty large and popular, so you don't get much of a chance to interact long with them, but the one in New York was a small stand outside their house. The old lady there was missing teeth and had facial hair she didn't seem to ever deal with.
 
When you try to talk to them it kinda just feels like talking to a deaf or autistic person.

They often ride Amtrak to get between cities. Apparently this is allowed by certain factions if they hire an intermediary party to book the tickets for them. They always bring the entire family along for the trip. They like to post up in the dome car and play cards for hours at a time. In spite of air conditioning, the dome car has large windows, and it gets quite warm in the summer. The resultant smells can get pretty interesting.
 
Does this count? I'm planning to visit Belize soon and I know a lot of Mennonites live there and from what I understand they're kind of like the Amish. There are so much Mennonites in Belize, they make up to 4% of the population in the country. For reference, in Muttistan 4% of the population are Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc.)
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I'm originally from Upstate NY, and we had a lot of Amish communities in North Country. Their craftsmanship was always top notch. Sheds ready to buy and move on a trailer were always advertised on side of the roads. Been in plenty of their shops and homemade foods are always incredible. Some of them I noticed had vehicles mainly because they actually had normal businesses like roofing, so they would need to move a lot of equipment quickly.
 
I lived in a city that was near a large Amish community. They have a wicked black and bone-dry sense of humor most people don't get. I do and they are fucking hilarious. The fact that I got their jokes gave me a huge in with them. They generally are really nice, hard working people. Yes they don't wear deodorant but I always enjoyed interacting with them.
 
I too have encountered them on the AMTRAK, they fill up the train. Couldn’t understand what they were saying, even though my wife is fluent in German. On one trip, we were in a carriage filled with all the teenage kids of the family’s. We got bored of all the board/card games and just started arm wrestling, all of the kids stopped what they were doing and stared at us; and then all the boys started challenging me to wrestle. I went two rounds with some boy who was probably 14, and gave up. He had arms like a traction engine. Then they just started challenging each other. I guess they’re passionate about Arm Wrestling.
 
I live in an area very close to what we would call Amish country, and worked in that area for a little while. They are extremely hard works, they get shit done, and they do it well.
The well off Amish in my experience are assholes though and they treat their animals very poorly. They run puppy mills and those things are fucking depressing. In the grocery stores you'll see their carts full of junk food, they're known for their baking and it can be very good but they also buy shit premade snack cakes and LOVE Mountain Dew, just shopping carts full of Mountain Dew. We have some near by bulk food stores that are Amish ran and they often will have delis that have good deals on cold cuts and cheese, a couple of them make sandwiches that are fat for a great price.

I don't know how true it actually is, but I've been told there is a lot of inbreeding.
It also seems that a lot of ex-Amish end up having drug and alcohol addictions.
 
idkcumiguess said:
I don't know how true it actually is, but I've been told there is a lot of inbreeding.
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I have a friend who swears on his life that this story is true. Some friends and him (4 in total) were getting drunk and decided to drive out to Amish country. They drove to a barn and paid an Amish father 20$ each to have unprotected sex with his two daughters because inbreeding was getting bad in their colony. The story is most likely more folk legend or rumor than reality.
 
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